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With the drive for digitalization and the Internet of Things the expression “Content is King”, coined by Bill Gates, has now been replaced by “Data is King”. This is especially TRUE in functional safety where the safety and reliability predictions generated from a Failure Modes, Effects & Diagnostics Analysis…

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In exida’s Component Reliability Database (CRD), every component includes a Useful Life expressed in years and/or cycles.

Understanding Useful Life

This post, drawing from exida's whitepaper [1] on how environmental factors impact component reliability, shows how Useful Life, like failure rates, is affected by factors such as temperature…

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Good component failure rate data is a cornerstone of good quality reliability metric analysis. As mentioned in a previous exida whitepaper, one of the shortcomings of reliability databases has been the inability to handle variations in the operating environment. A sensor monitoring a flame and the processor interpreting the signal…

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Has your FMEA entered the realm of the paperwork exercise that we force ourselves to do for no real reason than someone says we must do it?

I have enjoyed analysis using FMEA. I first learned it existed when I was working for Ford. FMEA was the first Ford…

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I find YouTube to be a good source of information on many subjects. Want to know how to fix a widget? There are probably a few videos on that exact subject.  Technical subjects are also there.  I was searching on “FMEA” and found an interesting looking video on the “Read More...

The So What: 

Your product's safety and reliability depend on the constant battle between component stress and strength throughout its useful lifetime. This dynamic is influenced by everything from design and manufacturing to usage and environment. Crucially, without…

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